Reproducing women : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China /

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This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wu, Yi-Li, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Temas:
1644-1912
Childbirth > China > History.
Reproductive health > China > History.
Women > Health and hygiene > China > History.
Metaphor.
Gynecology > history
History, Modern 1601-
Metaphor
Reproductive Medicine > history
Santé de la reproduction > Chine > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 1500-
Métaphore.
metaphor.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Childbirth
Manners and customs
Reproductive health
Women > Health and hygiene
China > Social life and customs > 1644-1912.
China
Chine > Mœurs et coutumes > 1644-1912.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Late imperial fuke and the literate medical tradition
  • Amateur as arbiter : popular fuke manuals in the Qing
  • Function and structure in the female body
  • An uncertain harvest : pregnancy and miscarriage
  • "Born like a lamb" : the discourse of cosmologically resonant childbirth
  • To generate and transform : strategies for postpartum health
  • Epilogue: body, gender, and medical legitimacy.

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